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...long Walt ran out of both money and credit. One day he realized that he had missed at least three meals in a row. He borrowed a camera, photographed some babies, took the $40 he earned and headed for Hollywood. Brother Roy, who had just been released from a TB sanatorium in Arizona, met him there, and they set up shop in the $5-a-month corner of a Hollywood real-estate office. In the next four years the Disney studios produced 24 cartoons in a series called Alice in Cartoonland and 52 more about Oswald the Rabbit. At first...
...Francis Trudeau fell ill in New York with tuberculosis, the disease was still a deadly mystery, romanticized in such plays as La Dame aux Cornelias, but dreaded by its victims and misunderstood by helpless doctors. That was in 1865, and since there were no nurses trained to care for TB victims, Francis Trudeau's 16-year-old younger brother Edward took over the task of sitting with him in a stuffy, tightly sealed room and administering useless cough medicines for four months until Francis died...
Eight years later (by then a doctor with a wife and child), Edward found he had TB himself. Remembering with horror the airless cell in which his brother suffered, Trudeau moved to Bloomingdale, in a remote section of New York's Adirondack Mountains, and three years later to nearby Saranac Lake. Inexplicably, he began to recover in the cool, fresh air. In 1885, on a $350 gift from a friend, Trudeau founded the. U.S.'s first TB sanatorium (first patients: two consumptive factory girls). Trudeau shunted patients out into the biting mountain air, made them sleep, bundled snugly...
...basic research in tuberculosis and allied diseases. As a sanatorium, Trudeau was a victim of success. In the past year, only 60 patients, about a third of capacity, came to be cured at Saranac, leaving Trudeau with a deficit of $90,000. Public hospitals are handling more and more TB patients; wonder drugs make possible extensive home and outpatient treatment; and the importance of climate in treatment has been sharply discounted. Finally, as Trudeau doctors will point out, TB has dropped in 50 years from the nation's second-ranking killer to seventh, takes only 6% as many lives...
...bring his HMV, Parlophone and British Columbia recordings past the million mark in sales (MGM Records plans to market U.S. releases soon). With the proceeds Father MacEwan helped rebuild his parish church of St. Margaret's, Lochgilphead in Argyll, Scotland and contributed to both a mental and a TB hospital. Now he accepts concert engagements only during his vacation. Says he: "Eleven months of the year, I do my ordinary job. I sing only Masses and benediction and all. My parishioners are quite used...